When Sarah Kirkman was born on 25 December 1826, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, her father, George Adolphus Kirkman, was 32 and her mother, Patience Kathleen Chappel, was 19. She married Silas Harvey Smith on 28 April 1844, in Centerville, Center Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Posey Township, Fayette, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 23 March 1900, in Hickory Plains, Prairie, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hickory Plains, Prairie, Arkansas, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historical Information: 1832: Blackford County, Indiana, United States
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English (Lancashire): from Middle English kirkman ‘clergyman; churchwarden; lay official responsible for church finances’.
Americanized form of German Kirchmann , a cognate of 1 above, or of its North German cognate Kerkmann (see Kerkman ) and a very rare variant Kirkmann.
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